Mariya Saakyan

A doomsday comedy.

Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old girl, Evridika, who is experiencing the first extremes of adolescent emotion, "I'm Going to Change My Name" makes effective and imaginative use of her private world centred on internet chat rooms and mobile phone recordings. The film's originality lies in a dream world of images and poetry, in which the Armenian landscape also plays its role. Her mother's former lover returns, giving rise to unforeseen consequences and parallels. (Peter Hames)

Directed by Maria Saakyan, a native of Armenia who has lived in Russia since the early 1990s, the film shows Lena (Anna Kapaleva) returning to her village in the Caucasus in an effort to convince her grandparents to flee the fighting that is enveloping the area. (Paul Abelsky)

A story about relations through images and emotions. She and He and between them - the little daughter. Two different worlds and no hope for contact. (Internazionale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen)